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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • Software updates can be deployed regionally either based on carrier or by product SKU. If there are different SKUs for North American vs EU phones, which is almost universally the case because of differing regional requirements such as radio technology, target price points and so on. That means that phone model ‘X (NA)’ could have a different update schedule than ‘X (EU)’.

    Why? money, of course. There is a small cost to supporting a SKU for updates, even if it’s the same software that’s already being deployed to another SKU. That increases if the two SKUs have different processors (Samsung does this). On top of that, longer update schedules means people aren’t replacing their phones as often, which means theoretically less sales - though I find that claim dubious as many people replace their phones long before they lose software support.

    So yes, while it’s possible that a company might honour a 7 year update schedule outside of EU, it would be by their choice to do so.







  • I’m a guy, but I don’t think I need to explain to anyone the potential complications from going around topless as a woman… Whether trans or not.

    It’s normal and fairly mundane for men to go topless in virtually all societies, however, there are a good number of cultures where it is also normal for women to be topless. If it is normal and mundane for women to be topless, then it becomes a non-issue eventually. It’s only racy because we’re trained in our culture to find it racy.




  • Violent rebellion rarely results in a government that those rebelling wished for, unless those rebelling wish for authoritarian government. Egalitarian governance is often born from long-term persistence to addressing the needs of the population and a general rejection of policies from the wealthy.

    That being said, a population under an authoritarian regime often need to use violence to (attempt to) trigger the shift into a more egalitarian government. In France’s case it worked (for a while), but took several attempts to get there.

    Creating lasting policy which truly works for the population requires that the population is healthy, fed, housed, and educated - if any of these are missed, then there is a significant risk of a right-wing shift.







  • Even if that happened, you’d just end up with Vance as president. If you somehow remove both Trump and Vance, you get Mike Johnson. The US has effectively no mechanism to force new elections - in Westminster style parliament, a majority ‘no’ vote on certain legislation (i.e. budget) immediately triggers dissolution of parliament and an election must happen. A party can also call a vote of no-confidence, which will do the same thing if it passes.

    There’s also another “oh shit” button that can be pushed for those of us still beholden to the Crown, which is King Charles can mandate the dissolution of government unilaterally, which actually happened once in Australia.